Voices: An idea behind why voters support Trump

I am grouchy when someone wakes me up before I’m ready. It’s been compared to poking a bear. My question to the offender is always the same. “Why in the world would you want to poke a bear?”

Political pundits have come to many conclusions concerning the popularity of Donald Trump. In Monday’s Daily Advertiser, a Virginia columnist called his supporters “a proud army of anti-intellectual patriots.” Pardon me, but did she mean ignorant?

I think Trump’s supporters are bears that are tired of being poked. Some of his most controversial views concern the eleven million illegal immigrants in this country. I am not anti-immigrant. My mother was an immigrant, albeit a legal one.

Regardless of which side you’re on, surely all of us can agree that something needs to be done. How many bad guys slip across our borders every day? How many are already here? Talk of building a fence has caused thousands to protest. I am only guessing, but I bet the majority of the protesters are not folks who waited patiently and endured the process of coming to America legally. Maybe they’re tired of being poked, too.

Socialist is not an insult to Sanders

Republicans never miss a chance to call Bernie Sanders a socialist, as though socialism were an all or none phenomenon.

Any country that has public roads and bridges, a postal system, public schools, a military, firemen, policemen, airports, trains, some form of social security, and some form of national health care is to some extent socialistic.

Do the Republicans intend to do away with all these things so that they cannot be accused of being Socialists?